The Windows Phone 7 is awesome too!
I mean, I really think it's a great design and hope it does well. But geez, I wish the fanbois would give it a rest until the thing is REAL.
You can only scream "OMG! WOW! OMG! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! OMG! OMG! WOW!" for so long before people start walking away....
Just sayin'...
Too funny! Heavier, thciker, non-retina, likely lousy battery life, and likely more expensive than iOS or Android. Yeah, it will change everything...
It’s starting to look like the MS fans think W8 tablets will be viable and manageble in the enterprise, and the Apple fans are afraid of exactly the same thing.
Amazing; this review is spot on, finally a good balanced look at both platforms. My findings mirror the authors, having worked with each generation of iPad, I too am looking forward to the Surface, which is not a knock on the iPad cause I love it too, but for business use the Surface so far looks to be just the ticket.
I love my iPad, use it every day and love it for what it *can* do. But every day there is something that frustrates me, wont render, or just doesn’t do. Nothing big enough to kick the iPad to the curb, but enough that I have to keep the Laptop handy. The apps are great, but there aren’t apps for everything. Example for today - got my Merchant account at the bank. I processed my first set of credit card sales and wanted to check my new merchant account report. Sorry, the site uses Flash - had to wait until later and check on my laptop. I get the war with Flash, but am tired of working around it.
So I can’t wait for the Surface tablet that runs Windows and renders all the web sites. I’ll keep the iPad for games.
Thanks for posting the article. May I summarize?
“I don’t have one, but I hear they are great”.
It’s funny, because for too long Apple has kept the Ipad “locked down” by only allowing it to run the apps that Apple approves. Have to use Itunes to add files from an external source. Can’t watch certain types of video without re-encoding. And no SD reader or USB port? That’s a joke.
Surface should let you run the same programs that you run on your home or work PC, or anything else you can download for that matter. Meaning, I could put the software on it that I use for work and have a viable tablet solution to do the tasks I do every day. You can add files via USB or SD. Heck, you could take pictures with your digital SLR camera using a full size SD adapter then put the micro SD in your tablet and see or edit the pictures instantly, without having to email them to yourself or going through Itunes. You wouldn’t have to have another computer, period.
I’m not a Microsoft fan, but they hit a home run when they decided to put a desktop OS on their tablet and include an SD and USB port. If Apple had done this from the get-go, I might own an Ipad right now.
I’m still dying to know if I can boot Ubuntu on a Surface, though...
So, can I install Linux on it?
I need to know more about the price.